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Actress Meryl Streep and actor Alan Alda have accepted the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman and Man of the Year Awards...
...Meryl Streep's Joanna is equally well-studied. Streep could have let herself fall into the role she played in Manhattan--the spiteful, surly bitch. But her Joanna is three-dimensional, the unquestioning young mother, the frustrated wife, the desperately independent career woman. She evokes sympathy where others would be satisfied with hatred. Justin Henry's Billy is not just another in the string of Tatum O'Neal-styled brats. The kid is no actor and the natural touches he adds--the smirk over a pint of chocolate chip ice cream, amusement at watching his father ruin the french toast...
...predictable was the success of Columbia's Kramer vs. Kramer (TIME, Dec. 3). It is a smash despite the fact that unlike the other holiday hits, it deals with serious problems: divorce and a bitter custody fight. But the film also has compelling acting by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and young Justin Henry. "It is popular because the story line, the performances and the direction are so good," says Alan Friedberg, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. "It is a film people can relate to." Comparatively inexpensive (cost: $13 million, including promotion), Kramer made $16.5 million...
...what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...Meryl Streep is America's finest movie actress, and Dustin Hoffman gives his best performance since The Graduate, but the kid, Justin Henry, steals the screen...